Notices by Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)

@cjd
Hmm you were saying that people in US no longer want to join the military, because they know it's just a way for the elites to genocide them?

But if that's the case, then why are people already in the military willing to thwart protests? Don't they realize it's just the establishment using them to kill their fellow citizens?

@weirdtreething @domi @elly @famfo
AFAIU there are three main differences from X11 that motivated the creation of Wayland:
1. no indirect rendering - client renders on its own and passes to the server a buffer filled with pixels
2. no global namespace - by default a client only gets to see its own windows
3. no passing buffers back-and-forth between the display server and a compositor - now compositor and display server live in one process

1/

@weirdtreething @domi @elly @famfo
If you reject all three, and just get rid of the old unused cruft from the protocol (eg. drop X11 core drawing API, leave Xrender abd indirect GLX in) then I guess you could call it X12, and a lot of people would be happy to use it.

But I think there are also a lot of people who care about point 2 above, and AFAIK that's the feature of wayland that caused the most breakage. So wayland would still need to exist.

@whitequark
On one hand, yes, it's giving dangerously misleading steps.

On the other hand, I think the rules that apply to cryptography, medicine, and law should also apply to chemistry: reading stuff online is fine of you just want to understand it for the sake of understanding, but don't try implementing it irl unless you're a licensed professional.

@rin on Arch, where bootloader doesn't update unless you manually grub-install && grub-mkconfig?

This comment on a github issue should've been a blog post

tracing with eBPF is great

also, does vkEnumeratePhysicalDevices leak FDs?

bpftrace is nice but remember to sudo --preserve-env=DEBUGINFOD_URLS, otherwise you might not get pretty userspace stacktraces

but sometimes your distro's debuginfod does not have symbols for the library you're interested in...

eg. Arch's doesn't have symbols for libgallium

I built mesa from source, let's see if that helps

@domi
>pg17

now I feel old :(

@Suiseiseki @josemanuel perfection is when there is no line that ciuld be removed.

POSIX does not require /bin/true to have --help and --version. Arguably, it is against POSIX for those programs to output anything at all. And it is completely unnecessary. A program like /bin/true could be implemented in 3 lines of code. It could have 3 assembly instructions. Its code could be smaller than the ELF header.

And yet, it is bloated with legalese.

@Suiseiseki @josemanuel
have you tried reading the source code of /bin/true from GNU coreutils?

Never read the source code of your heroes /hj

@josemanuel I should've said "don't read the source code of a program you want to use, because you'll likely no longer want to use it"

Stop writing to /etc!
Programs weren't supposed to overwrite their own configs.

Wanted to persist the last runtime setting requested by the user, to restore it after restart?
We had a tool for that, it's called a state file, and you put it in /var/lib

@Zergling_man @Suiseiseki
well, in Poland there's UPC Polska, but they:
a) practice scenic routing
b) put your IPv4 behind CGNAT (DualStack-Lite) unless you ask them to switch you to IPv4
c) aren't every reliable

@hufman @Zergling_man
yeah lol :D

but what do you call it, when packets from your flat in Warsaw goe on a trip to Berlin and Frankfurt before arriving at a university in Warsaw, 15min of walk down the street from your place?

@Suiseiseki ok, then recommend an ISP in Poland that provides IPv6 and good routing, and a cheap basement within that ISP's range

I'm looking for a VPS with a lot of IPv6 (at least /64, ideally /56 or /48), good routing to Poland, and enough CPU to run chacha20 at 100Mbit/s.

Is there any provider you'd recommend?

@lanodan @leo @domi
hmm yeah it'd need to come with an SLA